Authoritarian India in retreat?
The BJP’s surprise underperformance in India’s general elections is a setback for the global right.
Politics
Le droit d’être différent
La Côte d’Ivoire peut-elle devenir un havre de paix pour les communautés LGBTQI+ en Afrique de l’Ouest?
The right to be different
Could Côte d’Ivoire one day become a safe haven for LGBTQI+ communities in West Africa?
Between two evils
After losing its parliamentary majority for the first time, the African National Congress is scrambling to form a coalition government. The options are bleak.
Corruption kills?
The Nigerian Scam podcast returns to discuss the rise and fall of Nigeria’s anti-corruption movement.
Rhetoric is not enough
Although Lula da Silva called Israel’s war against Palestinians a genocide, the Brazilian president is yet to follow that up with concrete action.
Retórica não é suficiente
Embora Lula da Silva tenha chamado a guerra de Israel contra os palestinos de genocídio, o presidente brasileiro deve avançar em ações concretas para enfrentá-lo.
To be a woman in Sudan
Women in Sudan have gone from being state subjects to war spoils.
Direct action gets the goods
In 1985, black students at the University of Houston led a campaign for divestment from apartheid South Africa.
Just us voting?
The Just Us Under A Tree podcast returns to analyze all the legal drama building up to South Africa’s general election.
Children are the first to die
There is a particular historical pattern of colonial settler genocide that links Africa to Palestine.
An electoral autocracy
In India, popular movements, not elections, will bring transformative change.
Diomaye’s first weeks
The challenge for the new Senegalese government is how to translate promises into policy.
The world isn’t watching
As catastrophe unfolds in Sudan, most of the world continues to turn a blind eye.
Taking the Lagos train
The arrival of mass rapid transit in the city offers a new metaphor for Nigeria’s social stratification.
Reaching for life
In Sudan, the focus must remain on supporting the Sudanese people’s aspirations for peace, stability, and democratic governance.
Mosque diplomacy
In North Africa, religion is being used to spread political and cultural influence.
Les femmes dans la nation sénégalaise
Le gouvernement du plus jeune président de l'histoire du Sénégal semble déjà incarner une vision rétrograde des femmes.
Between woman and nation
The government of the youngest president in Senegal’s history already seems to embody retrograde views about women.
Seria a guerra em Gaza um genocídio?
Da Namíbia até a Armênia, e de Ruanda à Bósnia, os perpetradores de assassinato em massa afirmam estar agindo em legítima defesa.